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VUufomat&i' Speleology January/February 1995 Volume 22 Number I I |i i Manatee Springs Exploration: A New North American Record Inside this Issue: Exploring the Most Remote Place Under the Earth, the San Agustin Sump by Barbara Anne am Ende Peacock Steps Completed by EricTasso REDUCE SWIMMING EFFORT WITH OMS' NEW LINE OF ULTRA­LOW DRAG COEFFICIENT BC AND BACKPLATE HARNESS SYSTEMS Single and dual bladder models feature: rugged ballastic nylon, 85 lbs. lift, expansion/contrac­ tion bands, dual bladder model features the ability to run both inflator hoses over the left shoulder or one inflator hose over the right shoulder. Top and bottom dumps are stan­ dard for the primary bladder and a top dump is standard for the redundant (backup) blad­ der. Backplates available in ABS or Stainless Steel. See us at the tek CONFERENCE BOOTH #704 and DEMA Booth #1035 OMS also offers a complete line of tanks, valves and hardware for under­ water exploration. PO BOX 446 MAYBROOK, NY 12543 800/0MS­9149 OR FAX 800/0MS­9152 INT'L FAX 914­457­9497 2 Underwater Speleology January/February 1995 Editor Shannon Sikes @<ur£e*t&l 5721 NW 84 Terrace Gainesville FL 32653 Peacock Steps Complete Home (904) 376­0215 by Eric Tasso, CDS Treasurer 5 Compuserve 74111,3006 Manatee Springs: A New World Record Board of Directors by Jarrod Jablonski 6 Chairman Off the Mainline: San Agustin Sump, Mexico Joe Odom By Barbara Anne am Ende to 452 Airport Road SW Accident Analysis Hartselle AL 35640 ts Work (205) 773­7315 by Bill Stone and Kenny Broad Compuserve 71171.1413 Techniques: SCHwing by Jeff H. Carson 26 Vice Chairman The Safety Line: What Is A Safe Cave Dive? Watson Boxley 27 3700 Crestwood Parkway by Wendy Short Suite 150 CDS Board of Directors Meeting Minutes: October I Duluth GA 30136 Submitted by Gene Broome, CDS Secretary 22 Work (404) 513­1886 Compuserve 74204,2657 Return To Atlantida Tunnel by R.D. Milhollin 30 Treasurer Deco Madness Eric Tasso by Mike Bruic 32 4929 NW 71 Place Gainesville FL 32653 Home (904) 378­5207 Compuserve 70214,3606 Secretary Copyright 1995 by the Cave Diving Section Submissions Gene Broome of the National Speleological Society, Inc. All rights reserved. No portion of this document UWS welcomes your submission. UWS PO Box 822 may be reproduced without the express written assumes that anyone submitting photos Branford FL 32008 consent of the NSS­CDS. Opinions expressed Home (904) 935­0146 and/or graphics has obtained proper within are not necessarily those of the NSS­CDS. Work (904) 935­1 141 permission from the cartographer/ Advertising­Please contact Jeff Carson at photographer for reproduction of such Compuserve 70711,347 (407) 295­5406 for pricing information and requirements. material in UWS. We prefer prints to Training Chairman NSS Membership­The National Speleological slides, but can accept both. All submis­ Lamar Hires Society welcomes the interest of anyone who sions are subject to standard magazine has a sincere concent about the safety, study, editorial practices. Unfortunately, we Route 14 Box 162 exploration and conservation of caves, wet or cannot publish everything we receive. If Lake City FL 32055 dry. You may join the NSS by writing to 2813 you have an idea for an article but arc Home (904) 755­5913 Cave Avenue, Huntsville AL, 35810 or by Work (904) 752­1087 contacting the Cave Diving Section with a S25 unsure if it is suitable for UWS. please Compuserve 721 10,3055 membership fee. The membership includes feel free to contact the editor. discounts on publications and conventions, as Leadership Coordinator well as the NSS News and Directory. You arc Submission Deadlines Rick Wolfe also eligible to vote in all NSS elections. CDS Membership­As a sub­organization or March/April February 20 4297­F "section" of the NSS. the Cave Diving Section May/June April 20 Pleasant Lake Village Lane is subject to the bylaws and ethics of the NSS. July/Aug June 20 Duluth GA 30136 Membership in the Cave Diving Section is Sept/Oct August 20 Work (404) 476­4476 open to anyone in good standing with the NSS. Nov/Dec October 20 Compuserve 74172.2427 Annual membership is S10 and includes a bimonthly subscription to this publication, Director at Large Underwater Speleology, as well as voting Vacant privileges, publications and seminar discounts. Please send membership requests to Bruce Ryan at the NSS­CDS Main Office. Make NSS-CDS BBS System Administrative Manager checks payable to the NSS­CDS. 24 hours a day Bruce M. Ryan Subscription­If you do not wish to join the 813-648-9400 NSS and CDS but would like to receive NSS-CDS Main Office Up to 14,400 Baud PO Box 950 Underwater Speleology, you may subscribe to PC Board 15.0 Branford FL 32008 just this publication for $20 per year. Send Bruce's home address: funds to Bruce Ryan at the NSS­CDS Main 8 data bits; 1 stop bit; no parity Office; make checks payable to PO Box 1368 Underwater Speleology. St. Petersburg FL 33731 Classifieds Policy­Free Classifieds for Home (813) 528­4202 personal dive gear are available to members in Compuserve 71573.1073 good standing with the NSS­CDS. Volume 22 Number I Underwater Speleology 3 Svettfo New Board Elected CDS Social: Ginnie Springs Joint Instructor Workshop In the highest return of ballots in On February 25th, we are gathering The joint NACD/NSS­CDS Work­ CDS history, three new BoD mem­ at the new Devil's Eye Pavilion at shop scheduled for December 3­4 bers were elected. More than 50 Ginnie Springs Resort to go diving. has been postponed until February percent of NSS­CDS members We will be there at 8AM on Saturday 18­19. Poor conditions at Indian returned their ballots, including morning to set up the booth for the Springs dictated the postponement of members from Switzerland and CDS with t­shirts, maps and books the workshop. Saudia Arabia. Elected were Gene for sale. Come whether you have a Speakers for the Workshop Broome, Woody Jasper, and Wayne buddy or not—there will be plenty of include Dr. Chuck Mills, Tom Marshall. The new Board will meet people to dive with. There will also Morris, Curt Bowen, Lloyd Bailey at 6:30PM on Saturday, February 4, be canoeing and volleyball for the and Arnold Jackson. at Ginnie Springs to assign new kids and non­diving partners. The Workshop will be held at positions (Chairman, Treasurer, Starting around 7PM we will be Indian Spring in Tallahassee, Secretary, etc). The Board looks having a big party at the pavilion. A Florida. Instructors must attend all forward to your input. ­> keg has been generously donated to seminars to dive Indian Spring. The cost to pre­register is $30; at the CDS Workshop Plans the cause and there will be a bonfire as long as the wood lasts. We'll even door the cost will be $35 (some Workshop Chair Gene Broome is be having a weenie roast! If you plan meals are included in this price). To actively soliciting your input for the to indulge, please keep in mind that pre­register, send a check for $30 by 1995 CDS Workshop. Please drop him there is overnight camping at Ginnie February 1st made out to the NSS­ a line at address below with ideas for Springs. Hope to see you there!­> CDS to Elena Casson at the address activities, speakers, or to volunteer.­> listed in the calendar below.­> Events continues on page 31... @aCevui<%sT February May Joint NACD/CDS Indian The 1995 CDS Spring 1X-19 Springs Instructor Work­ 26-29 Workshop, Branford, shop, Tallahassee, Florida. Gene Broome, Florida. To pre­register, Workshop Chairman, is contact Elena Casson, c/o actively seeking volun­ Lloyd Bailey's Scuba, teers and suggestions. 3500­F NW 97th Blvd., Please conact him at: Gainesville FL 32606, NSS­CDS Workshop, PO (904) 392­2619 or e­mail Box 950, Branford FL [email protected]. 32008. Phone and/or Fax July him at (904) 935­1141. CDS Social beginning at 9AM at Ginnie Springs, NSS Convention, High Springs Florida. 17-21 Blacksburg, Virginia. Contact Bruce Ryan (813) Contact Carol Tiderman, 528­4202 or Annette Korn 7600 Pindell School (904) 728­6536 for more Road, Fulton MD 20759, information. (410) 792­0742. Underwater Speleology January/February 1995 Peacock Stefib ^omyzlete By Eric Tasso-CDS Treasurer Those of you who have been around for a while will remember the days when driving up to Peacock literally meant up to the spring entrance. You might also remember making a dive at 11PM and decompressing by moonlight. Well, those days are long behind us. All of you reading this newsletter will remember the days when climbing down the makeshift steps was probably the most danger­ ous part of the dive. Yet the days ot makeshift steps are also long behind us at Peacock Springs. On October 9, 1994 the Peacock Steps Project was completed. For some of us this was the realization of a long­time dream. The work was delayed by weather but project supervisor Bill Rennaker was not going to let himself be stopped by a little water. The completion of this project could not even have come to this were it not for some key people. First of all, thanks to Bill Rennaker and Dale Steve Berman Income: Members contributions: $2155.00 Motes, the Project Coordinators. Richard Brady CDS Contributions: 1225.00 Thanks also to Bill Dooley, Mark Jack Brightwell Total Income: $3380.00 Meadows, Tony Pate, and Mike John Burdiss Expenses: Poucher who gave unselfishly of Kevin J.
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